Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, Late Bishop of London: With His Life, Volym 3

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Sida 80 It is in these he unbosoms himself without reserve, and pours forth his whole soul
before God. We are admitted into the deepest recesses, and see the most secret
workings, of his mind. We see him possessed alternately with hopes and fears, ...

Sida 183 "soul, and all that is within me praise his " holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul,
" and forget not all his benefits : who for- " giveth all thy sins, and healeth all thine
" infirmities ; who saveth thy life from de- " struction, and crowneth thee with ...

Sida 321 It discovers itself in every page of his writings. It sometimes throws a ray of
cheerfulness even over his gloomiest moments, and unexpectedly turns his
heaviness into joy. " In the Lord put " I my trust," says he, "how say ye then " to my soul, that ...

Sida 328 ... poured out the devout emotions of his soul, in that inimitable prayer delivered
down to us in the sacred writings.* This, it must be confessed, was a scene most
eminently calculated to raise the soul towards Heaven; to fill it with the sublimest.

Sida 348 ... the good things of this world, should receive his final summons to another, it
then behoves him to consider not only “whose “ those things shall be which he
has pro“ vided,” but what the lot of his soul shall be for which nothing is provided.

Sida 29 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

Sida 32 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

Sida 7 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face, That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret : and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Sida 102 - For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: 4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.